The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City